Victoria County History

owner. Separate views of frankpledge in Martinsley Hundred were claimed in 1286 by the Abbot of Westminster in Oakham and Barleythorpe , 4 and by the Hospitallers in Whitwell , Gunthorpe , Martinsthorpe, Bernards-hill, and Uppingham . MSS. of Earl

Deanshold with Barleythorpe , containing some 1,235 acres; and Gunthorpe , covering 500 acres. In 1894, under the Local Government Act, Deanshold and Lordshold with Gunthorpe were united to form the civil parish of Oakham , and Barleythorpe was made

1658 his parishioners petitioned the Council of State for a rearrangement of the vicarage, by separating its dependent chapels, except Barleythorpe chapel. Egleton was to be united to Brooke and endowed with the vicarial tithes of both hamlets, augmented by

, desiring them to bestow in deeds of charity t o the poor sick and impotent people of Langham and Barleythorpe the yearly rent thereof. There is now no trace of this charity. V.C.H. Rutl . i, 90. Dict. Nat.